K. examines a complex topic, the ‘autonomous’ silver and bronze coinages that were struck in the name of the Macedonians, Botteatai and Amphaxians as well as the bronze coins of the Roman quaestors in the name of the same authorities. Although this coinage had earlier attracted the attention of several scholars from the eighteenth century, it was Hugo Gaebler in the late nineteenth century who provided the first systematic study, focusing on the silver coinage. After Gaebler, several scholars have dealt with these ‘autonomous’ coins in the framework of other topics, such as the examination of the royal coinages of Philip V and Perseus, the numismatic circulation in Macedonia, the ‘autonomous’ coinages of Thessaloniki, Pella and Amphipolis of the Hellenistic period, and the political situation of Macedonia after the Roman conquest. The subject that K. examines is very important from a historical point of view, since it concerns the degree of authority and control that the last two Macedonian kings, Philip V and Perseus, exercised over regions and institutions within their kingdom as well as how the Romans tried to control Macedonia after the battle of Pydna (168/7 bc).

At the outset, K. clarifies the methodology she is going to use; the first part of the monograph includes the catalogue, the second part the numismatic and historical commentary, and the third part consists of the conclusions. In all three parts, the silver coins are examined first, followed by the bronze. For each chapter and sub-chapter K. delivers a short introduction, which is extremely useful for the reader.

The monograph starts with a catalogue of the coins, offering all the necessary information one would expect from a numismatic catalogue (inventory number, obverse–reverse dies concordance, provenance, bibliography, weight, diameter and axis). K. rightly makes a division according to iconographic types and thus separates the coins into series (i.e. a group of coins of the same authority that bear the same types), issues (according to mintmarks) and groups (issues with similar characteristics). She starts, as noted, with the silver coinage (Botteatai, Macedonians, Amphaxians) and continues with the bronzes (Botteatai, Macedonians, Amphaxians, Roman quaestors). Worth mentioning is the die study she offers for the silver coinage, which is useful for establishing the quantities of the coins minted and their sequence. Although no die study has been attempted for the bronze coins, it is important to note that here for the first time all the different iconographic types and varieties are catalogued in detail. Catalogues are followed by extremely valuable tables, offering information on the size of issues according to the existing obverse and reverse dies (tables 1a–e), and also a conspectus of the silver and bronze coins according to series, groups and issues (2a–2c, 3a–3c). Finally, in table 4, the obverse die links between issues of silver series III of the Macedonians are presented.

In the second part, the numismatic and historical commentary starts with the analysis of Gaebler's theory on the silver coins and continues in detail with the coins’ problematic chronology, which is of crucial significance in any attempt to place them in a sure framework and relate them to specific political events. To achieve this task, K. makes good use of the available data, such as historical sources, mintmark studies, iconography, examination of the coins’ weight standards and coin hoards. A major new idea to emerge from the study is connected with the chronology of series I and II of the Macedonians (nymph/stern, shield/stern) and coins of the Botteatai that K. assigns to late in the reign of Antigonos III Doson or early in the reign of Philip V (224–197 bc), rather than following the traditional dating previously accepted by most scholars (i.e. after the battle of Kynoskephalai in 197 bc). On the other hand, series III (shield/helmet) is dated later, to the last years of the reign of Philip V and through the reign of Perseus (196–168 bc). Besides the arguments mentioned above, K. rightly compares series I and II of the Macedonians with the coins of Lychnidos and Histiaia, and also examines the ‘autonomous’ coins in connection with the royal silver issues minted by Philip V and Perseus. Also worth mentioning is K.'s reconsideration of the dating of several coin hoards containing ‘autonomous’ coinages with coins of Histiaia, Rhodian and pseudo-Rhodian coins, whose concealment had previously been related to the events of the third Macedonian war (171–168 bc). According to K. it is only after 196 bc, when the Macedonians lost control of Histiaia, that Rhodian and pseudo-Rhodian coins were used in great numbers for payments by the Macedonian kings and other authorities within the Macedonian kingdom.

The examination of the silver coins is followed by the analysis of the bronzes. K. takes into account the existing bibliography and concentrates on the major problem of their chronology. She correctly stresses the connection of the bronze coins of the Botteatai, Macedonians and Amphaxians with those of the Roman quaestors and the bronze civic issues of Thessaloniki, Pella and Amphipolis of the Hellenistic period. The dating of all these coins, which are found in great numbers in excavations, especially in northern Greece, has been the subject of dispute for many years. The resolution of the problem is vital, since it affects the nuances of the dating of archaeological strata of the second–first centuries bc and in consequence the dating of other finds, such as pottery of the Hellenistic period. To find a solution, just as she did in the case of the silver coins, K. examines in detail the iconography, metrology, coin circulation, monograms and coin hoards.

Using a solid methodology, K. dates most of the bronze ‘autonomous’ coinages to the last years of the reign of Philip V and of Perseus, and places the minting of some types of the Botteatai and Amphaxians in the years after the battle of Pydna (168/7 bc). She also accepts the dating of the coins of the quaestors to the first years after the battle and the dating of the civic coinages of Thessaloniki, Pella and Amphipolis immediately after the coins of the quaestors until the period of the naval battle of Actium (31 bc). K. properly points out first the diversity of the iconography of the bronzes (this is mainly related to local cults) and then their dissociation from the military iconography of the silver coins, the latter being used mostly for military payments. Intriguing is the connection of coins of the Macedonians carrying the monograms and , among others, with Amphipolis and the first meris (MΑΚΕΔΟΝΩΝ ΠΡΩΤΗΣ). This link is strengthened by the common iconographic motifs that also appear on civic Hellenistic coins of the city (Strymon/trident, Poseidon/horse, Poseidon/club).

K. has managed to successfully approach a challenging topic, examining it from several different perspectives. In doing so, she has produced a work of extremely high quality, a useful tool for numismatists and historians that will be the basis for the study of all related topics in the future.